Marine Corps Reference Publication MCRP 3-0C Operational Training Ranges Required Capabilities 29 May 2009 Marine Corps operational training ranges consist of a complex infrastructure with multiple geographic locations possessing a wide array of capabilities. These training ranges must support a broad spectrum of mission-essential warfighter training. It is uniquely challenging to assess this diverse infrastructure's capacity to meet the current and emergent training requirements imposed on contemporary operating forces. Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3-0C, Operational Training Ranges Required Capabilities, is the source document for managers and operators of Marine Corps range complexes as well as Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) commanders and staffs, joint forces, and other Services describing required capabilities for the entire Marine Corps range infrastructure. This publication categorizes and quantifies the required capabilities of Marine Corps operational training ranges. It also provides an overarching strategy for the ranges to ensure that range assets and capabilities are continuously available to support operations and training requirements-especially critical as the Marine Corps implements significant transitions in weapons, technology, and doctrine. MCRP 3-0C recognizes the dynamic environment of today's Marine Corps and the one certainty in training and education: that such training must be a continuum which must evolve as needed to produce Marines who are capable of thriving in diverse and challenging operational environments. The infrastructure involved in this training must keep pace with operating force mission requirements and force modernization. This publication supports mission-essential training in an unconstrained environment. It identifies short-term and long-range investment requirements and supports the development of new operational training ranges. MCRP 3-0C focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of operational training range support provided to warfighters and the stewardship of these vital resources for future generations of Marines.

From the foreword by Genral (ret.) David Petraeus: "In 2010, as the scale and tempo of Coalition operations in Afghanistan increased, so did the need for historical accounts of small-unit actions. As commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), I commissioned the Combat Studies Institute to research and write the cases collected in this volume and in those that will follow. By capturing key insights from both lethal and non-lethal operations, I hoped these accounts would be of immediate utility to sergeants and lieutenants at the center of future operations. The eight actions described in these pages take the reader through a wide range of platoon-level operations, from an intense firefight near Kandahar to an intricate civic action project in Kunar Province. Drawing from dozens of Soldier interviews, these accounts vividly depict the actions themselves and offer critical insights of greatest benefit to the small-unit actions leaders of today and tomorrow. The US Army always has prided itself as an institution of constant learning, strongly committed to drawing lessons from its past. This volume from the Combat Studies Institute is an excellent example of that long and honorable tradition. I hope that you will find the actions n Vanguard of Valor to be both instructive and compelling. I am sure that you will find them to be inspirational."

Per references (a) through (g), this T&R Manual establishes training standards, regulations and practices regarding the training of Marines and sailors whose primary mission is logistics.

Doctrine provides a military organization with a common philosophy, a language, a purpose, and unity of effort. Rather than establishing a set of hard and fast rules, the objective of doctrine is to foster initiative and creative thinking. To this end, FM 3-06 discusses major Army operations in an urban environment. This environment, consisting of complex terrain, a concentrated population, and an infrastructure of systems, is an operational environment in which Army forces will operate. In the future, it may be the predominant operational environment. Each urban operation is unique and will differ because of the multitude of combinations presented by the threat, the urban area itself, the major operation of which it may be part (or the focus), and the fluidity of societal and geopolitical considerations. Therefore, there will always exist an innate tension between Army doctrine, the actual context of the urban operation, and future realities. Commanders must strike the proper balance between maintaining the capability to respond to current threats and preparing for future challenges.